I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session. Melanie Martinez More Quotes by Melanie Martinez More Quotes From Melanie Martinez I'm obsessed with the venue and the people so it's going to be really fun.The last couple of tours I didn't have anything like that because of the budget, so I'm super excited because this is really going to bring the album to life. Melanie Martinez couplefunpeople It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for every song - it's so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want - and I've always worked to make it all connect - for all of it to feel cohesive. Melanie Martinez battleartistsong When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that. Melanie Martinez photographyartiststuff Everyone got to choose what they wanted to wear on stage, and by the third time going into wardrobe the stylists already knew what I'd love and what I would never throw on my body in a million years. They were fantastic, and it was so lovely working with them. Melanie Martinez lovelybodyyears I'm probably the most proud of "Mrs. Potato Head," because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I tried writing that song one time and I just couldn't tell the story the way I wanted to, and I couldn't figure it out. Melanie Martinez writingsongideas Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist. Melanie Martinez markmy-favoriteartist I think that the next album is specifically for sure from Cry Baby's perspective, but it's not necessarily about her family-life or her love-life, or anything like that, it's more about this place in this town. The place has different characters in there, so in every song there's gonna be different characters that appear. Melanie Martinez songbabycharacter I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well. Melanie Martinez videowritingthinking The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title...is like, so...I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense. Melanie Martinez titlesstoriesfirsts I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is. Melanie Martinez demographicspeoplethinking I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be. Melanie Martinez stageshowswanted Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved. Melanie Martinez tryingbabycharacter So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life. Melanie Martinez love-lifealbumsstories "Dollhouse" was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families. Melanie Martinez perfecthousehome I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me. Melanie Martinez connectionssongmean It's just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like...the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally. Melanie Martinez writingbabythinking When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time. Melanie Martinez writingsongbaby I'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha! Melanie Martinez hahasongamerica Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture. Melanie Martinez babycharacterthinking I'm always going to hear people make that connection and I've just accepted it. It's alright. I'm just happy that I get to do my own thing now. I learned a lot from the show [the Voice] as far as being in the TV world and being in front of the camera, which is really great because I'm not as nervous in front of the camera as I was before. Melanie Martinez camerasvoicepeople
